Minutes June 17,2024  NORTH CATASAUQUA BOROUGH COUNCIL MEETING  CALLTO ORDER PLEDGE ROLL CALL PRESENT:  President Pete Paone, Vice President John Yanek, Counciipersons: Michele Hazzard, Mike Macsisak; Dan Snyder, Mayor Molchany; Solicitor Stephanie Steward, Treasurer Annette Englert, Secretary TashaJ Jandrisovits. Adam Landis, Jessica Cope, Police Chief Chris Wolfer  ABSENT:  APPROVAL OF MINUTES  Pete noticed a typo on the minutes from May 20, 2024-Tasha will correct.  MOTION:  By Dan Snyder to approve the meeting minutes from the May 20, 2024. 2nd by Michele Hazzard. No additional discussion, all in favor  PEOPLE PRESENT  Dave Kutzor - attended the meeting to make clarifications for roof bidding and specifications. Discussed removal oft the siren - Roger will handle outside roof work. Pete and Dave discussed again what we were looking fori from Keystone. Discussion continued, but Pete clarified that we need watertight roof with no damage and for it to last for 20-30 years down the road with keeping in mind we hope to use the 2nd floor one day and install an elevator. Stephanie agreed the bid document needs to be specific SO that everyone bids on the same work.  OFFICE REPORT: - Tasha Jandrisovits  Treasurer job status = we posted in Catty Press and Morning Call for two weeks each and received zero applicants. We posted on Indeed and received 10 within a few hours. We have conducted one interview and will continue interviewing next week. Bamboo Ordinance - Stephanie - our current ordinance is specific as to the items prohibited, the bamboo ordinance she drafted doesn't prohibit all bamboo, there are circumstances where it can be maintained. We can revise and prohibit bamboo all  together or we could strictly prohibit.  Page1of4    Sewer relief- - 1081 6th Street  MOTION:  By Dan Snyder to approve granting sewer relief for a pool filling at 1081 6ths Street. 2nd by Mike Macsisak. No additional discussion, all ini favor  TREASURER REPORT - Annette Englert  Envirep Maintenance Contract $1090 per annual visit --Travis reviewed.  MOTION:  By Michele Hazzard to approve the annual Envirep maintenance contract at $1090.00. 2nd by Mike Macsisak. No additional discussion, all in favor  Sent 45 notices to property owners for water shut off -1t turn off tomorrow - rest paid.  PUBLIC WORKS SUPERVISOR REPORT - Travis Brett - no report. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORT - Greg Scheirer - no report. FIRE/CIVILSERVICE/OPERATIONS- Roger Scheirer  13 calls for May. Fire report attached. $13,450.59 received from state grant to replace older hoses on trucks. Fireman's relief gave the rest of the money towards it. Ordered in March 2024 and will take one year to receive. Looking to have the North Catasauqua fire department achieve state certification, we need 70% firefighters qualified in Firefighter 1 and 2 - we currently have 90% qualified. Goi through process, get stickers for truck. Catasauqua has this. North Catty was never able to obtain this before. Council thanked Roger for continuing to move the department forward. The state is moving its fire reporting system to First Due soon, Dan asked what the bill Dan thanked Roger for giving him and his family a tour of the Catasauqua Fire Station. Dan said he was very impressed, had no idea how large it was, how organized and up to date on equipment. Dan asked what our garage was being used for - Roger stated we use it for storage and the PD is using half ofit as well. Chrissy asked ift they could have the parking spots across the street back: since we are not running trucks out of here. We: agreed to discuss.  for MResponding was for - Roger stated they need to keep it for one year.  POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORT- Chief Wolfer- - no report. OFFICE INSURANCE & PERSONNEL REPORT - Adam Landis absent  PUBLIC WORKS REPORT- John Yanek  Meet w/Travis regarding details of The. Jess Finn Fest on. July13th.  RECREATION COMMITTEE REPORT - Michele Hazzard  Arts and Crafts this morning, wiffle ball this afternoon. Had 49 registered and 29 showed up to play. Cornhole league starts this Thursday, Friday is the CLAP concert. Rec meeting Wednesday  night. Page 2of4    LAW COMMITTEE REPORT- Michele Hazzard no report. PUBLIC PROPERTY & PARKS REPORT- Jessica Cope absent PUBLIC SAFETY-POLICE- - Michael Macsisak - no report. PUBLIC SAFETY-FIRE REPORT - Daniel Snyder - no report.  MAYOR REPORT - William J. Molchany  Carnival seemed a success. Pete stated the snack stand was busy. Good turnout, good crowd. Bamboo = draft ordinance, contact her directly. Drafted a resolution once all PD agreements have been ratified by the: association, changes willl be passed byr resolution. Stephanie-reviewed  SOLICITOR REPORT - Atty. Stephanie Steward  school resource documents, in process, another round coming.  COUNCIL PRESIDENT REPORT- Peter Paone  Hotel tax approvals  Pete has the applications fori the Northampton County Hotel Tax Grants for 2025. He normally applies fori the Rec Committee for $4k and $2100 for the Community Day. The rec committee has not spent all of the 2024 monies yet. Michele mentioned she met with Marc from the Betterment Committee to discuss sponsoring a concert for Autumnfest. Discussed we could use additional money for Community Day. We agreed to keep concerts at $4k and bump Community  Day up to $3k.  MOTION:  By Dan Snyder to approve applying for NCI Hotel Tax Grant for $4k for the concerts run by the Rec Committee. 2nd by Mike Macsisak. No  additional discussion, all in favor  MOTION:  By Dan Snyder to approve applying for NCI Hotel Tax Grant for $3k for the Police Association Community Day. 2nd by Michele Hazzard. No  additional discussion, all in favor  Roof update - Pete will follow-up phone call tomorrow with Keystone. Halloween parade first meeting is scheduled on. June 27th. something that draws people from out of town.  Hotel tax = Pete discussed with John this is something he could look at for the. Jess Finn Fest. Maybe the repaving of the courts we could get funding towards. Grants are for  NEW BUSINESS  Tasha asked about which meeting in. July do we want to hold. We agreed to reach out to all of council to determine who can attend which meeting in. July and will hold one oft the  two. Page 3of4    APPROVAL OF BILLS MOTION:  By Mike Macsisak to approve payment of all invoices. by. John Yanek. No  additional discussion, all in favor  ADJOURNMENT  MOTION:  By Mike Macsisak to adjourn the meeting at 7:59pm. 2nd by Dan Snyder.  No additional discussion, all ini favor  ATTEST:  Tasha. Jandrisovits Borough Secretary  Page 4 of4    North Catasauqua Fire Company This report was generated on 6/17/2024 9:09:46. AM Incident Type Count per Station for Date Range Start Date: 05/01/2024 End Date: 05/31/2024 Station: 18  NORTH CATASAUQUA FIRE  CNTASAUQI FIREDEPT.  North Catasauqua, PA  INCIDENTTYPE 311 - Medical assist, assist EMS crew 350- Extrication, rescue, other 353- Removal of victim(s) from stalled elevator 424 Carbon monoxide incident 440- Electrical wiringlequipment problem, other 444- Power line down 551 Assist police or other governmental agency 611- Dispatched & cancelled en route 651 Smoke scare, odor of smoke 714. Central station, malicious false alarm 743- Smoke detector activation, not fire unintentional  #INCIDENTS 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 13  #I Incidents for 18 - North Catasauqua Fire:  Only REVIEWED incidents included.  EMERGENCY REPORTING emetgeneyreporingcom Doc Id: 857 Page #1of1    North Catasauqua Fire Company This report was generated on 6/17/2024 9:10:24 AM  CATASAUQU FIREI DEPT.  North Catasauqua, PA Incident Statistics  Zone(s): All Zones I Start Date: 05/01/2024 End Date: 05/31/2024  INCIDENT COUNT  INCIDENT TYPE EMS FIRE TOTAL  #INCIDENTS 4 9 13  TOTAL TRANSPORTS (N2 and N3)  APPARATUS TOTAL  #of APPARATUS TRANSPORTS  #of PATIENT TRANSPORTS TOTAL# of PATIENT  CONTACTS  PRE-NCIDENT VALUE $0.00 424-Carbon monoxide incident TOTAL Aid Type Aid Given Aid Received #OVERLAPPING 0  LOSSES $0.00 1 1 Total 4 9 % OVERLAPPING 0  COCHECKS  MUTUAL AID  OVERLAPPING CALLS  LIGHTS AND SIREN AVERAGE RESPONSE TIME (Dispatch to Arrival)  Station North Catasauqua Fire  EMS 0:08:05 AVERAGE FOR ALL CALLS  FIRE 0:09:39 0:09:47 FIRE 0:06:44 0:06:09  LIGHTS AND SIREN-AVERAGE TURNOUTTIME (Dispatch to Enroute)  Station North Catasauqua Fire  EMS 0:04:50 AVERAGE FOR ALL CALLS  AGENCY North Catasauqua Fire Company  AVERAGE TIME ON SCENE (MM:SS)  18:17  Only Reviewed Incidents included. EMSi for Incident counts includes only 300 to 3991 Incident Types. All other incident types are counted as FIRE. CO Checks onlyi includes Incident Types: 424, 736 and 734. # Apparatus Transports =# ofi incidents where apparatus transported. #F Patient Transports = Allp patients transported by EMS.# Patient Contacts emergencyrepotngcom =#o of PCR contacted by apparatus. This report now returns both NEMSIS 28 &30 data as appropriate. For overlapping Doc Id:1 1645  EMERGENCY REPORTING" Page #1of1  calls that span over multiple days, total per month willr note equal Total count for year.    North Catasauqua Fire Company This report was generated on 6/17/2024 2:17:04 PM Personnel Count per Incident for Date Range Start Date: 05/01/2024 End Date: 05/31/2024  CNTASAUQ FIREDEPT,  North Catasauqua, PA  INCIDENT NUMBER 2024-53 2024-54 2024-55 2024-56 2024-57 2024-58 2024-59 2024-60 2024-61 2024-62 2024-63 2024-64 2024-65 TOTAL # OF INCIDENTS: 13  NUMBER OFI PEOPLE ON NOTON APPARATUS APPARATUS 2 2 4 7 4 3 3 6 4 3 3 3 3 7 2 8 2 0 1 5 1 4 4 2 1 3 2.6 4.1  DATE  INCIDENT TYPE  FDID 48043 48043 48043 48043 48043 48043 48043 48043 48043 48043  TOTAL 4 11 7 9 7 6 10 10 2 6 5 6 4 6.7  5/1/2024 12:00:49 353- Removal of victim(s) from stallede elevator 48043 5/1/2024 18:21:29 440- Electrical wiringlequipment, problem, other 48043  5/5/2024 21:39:40 5/8/2024 06:34:14 5/12/2024 12:58:33 5/21/2024 12:11:41 5/22/2024 12:59:13 5/22/2024: 22:44:00 5/23/2024 08:30:35 5/23/2024 10:12:12 5/24/2024 10:44:03 5/30/2024 10:58:31  311- Medical assist, assist EMS crew 611- Dispatched & cancelled enr route 651 Smoke scare, odor ofs smoke 651 Smokes scare, odor ofs smoke 743- Smoke detector activation, not fire- unintentional 350- Extrication, rescue, other 444. Power line down 424- Carbon monoxidel incident 311- Medical assist, assist EMS crew 714- Central station, malicious false alarm  5/23/2024 14:39:54 551- Assistp police or other governmental agency 48043  AVERAGES:  Only REVIEWED incidents included  EMERGENCY REPORTING emegencyepoting.com Docl Id:358 Page #1of1